Form Follows Feast
A Bauhaus-Inspired Lunch at Art Biesenthal celebrating color, form, and function.
From Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party to Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe, picnics have long appeared in art as scenes of pleasure, leisure, and connection. Later, artists like Daniel Spoerri and Picasso reimagined these moments through avant-garde lenses—turning the act of eating itself into performance and abstraction.
For one weekend, Vitamin Color took over the culinary programming at Art Biesenthal to present Form Follows Feast—a Bauhaus-inspired lunch exploring the intersection of food, color, and design.
Eleonore Buschinger hand-painted a series of primary-colored trays (red, yellow, and blue), drawing from the Bauhaus tradition of uniting function, beauty, and accessibility. Each tray served as both vessel and table: part picnic basket, part canvas.
Guests received seasonal lunch compositions by Vitamin Color, designed to be eaten in the grass or at communal tables—transforming each meal into a living still life and blurring the line between art object and shared feast.
Services
Concept development & creative direction
Food design & menu creation
Art direction & hand-painted serving objects
On-site production & food styling